MATTHEW SHIPP - MARK HELIAS

THE NEW SYNTAX

Matthew Shipp
Mark Helias

Matthew Shipp: piano
Mark Helias: double bass

Mystic Rubber Band

5:33

Psychic Ladder

6:46

Acoustic Electric

7:48

Bridge to Loka

7:20

We Sing the Body Jazz

7:50

The Mystic Garden

6:09

The New Syntax

8:02

Sonic Swing Particles

5:09

Song for You

3:59

All compositions by Matthew Shipp and Mark Helias

Recorded by Jim Clouse on July 8th 2020 at Park West Studios, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Mixing and mastering: Jim Clouse
Liner notes: William Parker
Photography: Bruno Charavet (M. S.), Valeria Zanola, Wolfgang Gonaus (M. H.)
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

From the first seconds of music, we are invited into a temple of sound swinging with a spontaneous motion. This conversation is reinforced with the gift of light, sometimes manifesting as a series of sounds and silences. Musicians are playing what is most inspirational at that particular moment. William Parker